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To say the Facebook Developer Platform changed the web as we know it would be a dramatic understatement. Originally launching in 2007 as a tool for developers to build apps for the social network, six years later it has evolved into a whole lot more....

ZZ Ward, who Fuse TV recently proclaimed as one of 30 must-see artists at South by Southwest, just launched a web app that plots when fans first discovered her. How? The "365 Days of ZZ Ward" app uses Facebook's Open Graph to browse users' Facebook a...

Facebook announced what it calls "the next evolution of Facebook Platform for mobile" at the company's Mobile Dev Con in New York City Thursday. Just as Facebook transitioned from HTML5 to more native strategies with its iOS and Android apps, the com...

Now we know what Facebook is building: a better internal search system. Speaking at a much-hyped event at Facebook HQ, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a raft of improvements to "graph search" -- that is, the ability to search within your so...

Twitter will ratchet up its competition with Facebook in the coming weeks by unveiling its own version of Facebook's Open Graph for mobile app developers, according to a source. The company is in the process of getting feedback about the initiative, ...

Facebook on Tuesday added the ability for people to mention friends on the service via Open Graph apps. “With this frequently requested feature, companies like Foursquare can implement user mentions that work like they do in posts on Facebook,” a Fac...

Facebook may be testing a "Want" button that would allow you to add products to a virtual wish list. According to Tom Waddington, a web developer for the site Cut Out + Keep, Facebook has a disabled "Want" button included in the Javascript coding its...

Facebook just rolled out a new Open Graph feature that will let users follow certain actions from various Facebook applications. This will let users get updates for certain actions in the News Feed, without having to subscribe or be friends with the ...

Last year, Facebook launched a new initiative built around, of all things, verbs. The company's Open Graph sought to do something interesting with the way we communicate with each other: Any action expressed on Facebook could become a branding opport...

The World at Work is powered by GE. This new series highlights the people, projects and startups that are driving innovation and making the world a better place. Name: Social Reality Big Idea: App developer Social Reality integrates philanthropy and ...

When Facebook filed for its IPO earlier this month, it revealed that it has 425 million mobile users. That massive presence on phones and tablets has translated into success for many others, the social network says, since Facebook's mobile platform s...

Facebook revealed its roadmap for social games and mobile apps for the rest of the year at the Inside Social Apps 2012 conference on Wednesday in San Francisco -- and it's good news for app developers. Want to create an app for Facebook's Open Graph?...

It's not always clear how Facebook apps interact with the data you share on the social network. Are they allowed to broadcast it? Sell it? Compile it in a way that you never intended? “When you turn all Platform applications off, your User ID is no l...

Facebook announced more than 60 new partnerships last Thursday, all of which yielded apps that can be integrated into your Timeline. We've already seen the early results of select partnerships -- including Spotify, The Washington Post and Foursquare....

The time has come for another Facebook launch event, and we're here to cover it live. Rumor has it that the social network will be launching more apps based on the Open Graph and Gestures -- that is, apps that let you "verb" any "noun" (read a book, ...

Facebook will introduce apps based on its new Open Graph and Gestures platforms at an event Wednesday in San Francisco, according to a report. The apps will let users "frictionlessly" share based on actions other than "like," "read" or "watch," accor...

Myxer has entered the crowded Internet radio market with Myxer Social Radio, an app aimed at providing a music-listening experience where you're never alone. The app offers several interactive components (see gallery below), including the "Song Stori...

Music discovery services such as Spotify, Rdio, Mog, Slacker and Earbits are attracting significantly more users since Facebook's f8 Developers Conference. Now that music apps are on the Open Graph -- and appear in the ticker -- Facebook users have s...

Peter VanRysdam is the CMO of web design company 352 Media Group and the author of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World. Connect with him on Twitter @Peter352. Lost in all the announcements about Timeline and frictionless experiences at Facebook’s F8 confere...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Facebook Timeline is now available for all, and it's remarkably easy to enable it for your account. This old method doesn't work any more, so follow this link for the easy new way to make it happen! SEE ALSO: Facebook Timeline Rede...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just unveiled the new Facebook Open Graph and Facebook Gestures. At the f8 conference in San Francisco, Zuckerberg unveiled the company's plan to extend connections and sharing to the next level. As we reported earlie...

“Social platforms would now focus on the Web, not social networks themselves.” That's how Mark Zuckerberg described Facebook’s vision when he announced the Open Graph in April 2010. Speaking at the f8 Developer Conference, Zuckerberg described an enh...

Exactly one year after its launch, the Facebook Like button has become ubiquitous across the web and is still installed on thousands of new websites every day. Facebook first introduced the Like button at its F8 developer's conference, along with Fac...

David A. Yovanno is the CEO of Gigya, Inc., a leading social optimization platform for online business. He can be found on Twitter at @daveyovanno or e-mail dave(at)gigya(dot)com. When it comes to Facebook, if you’re uncertain where and when to place...

Today Facebook denied rumors that it's building a phone, and though that probably means there technically won't be a Facebook-branded phone any time soon, some of what the company is doing in the mobile space could still be worthy of enthusiasm. In i...

Flixster-owned movie review site Rotten Tomatoes is now using Facebook's Instant Personalization features to tailor site content for each visitor upon arrival. As a select Facebook partner, Rotten Tomatoes is now able to instantaneously greet logged-...

Facebook has launched a slew of new updates for its ubiquitous Like button that could signal the end of the Facebook's Share button. There are three new updates to the Facebook Like button. First, the social network has now made it possible to like c...

Formerly a Principal Engineer at Amazon, Darren Vengroff is Chief Scientist at RichRelevance where he helps retailers like Overstock and Sears create a more personal shopping experience for consumers. You can read more from Darren on the RichRelevanc...

Social media management company Vitrue has announced the latest update to its enhanced and revamped Vitrue SRM (social relationship management) platform, Vitrue Publisher 2.0. What makes Vitrue Publisher 2.0 unique is not only its ability to publish ...

Facebook's Open Graph, the platform that extends and spreads Facebook's social network throughout the web, is going mobile, according to Facebook's Head of Mobile Products Eric Tseng. At the MobileBeat 2010 conference in San Francisco, Tseng said tha...

For about an hour, Facebook's Like feature wasn't working at all, either on-site or off. Many websites depend on likes for incoming traffic, so outages like that can cause big problems for a lot of people. Facebook moved very quickly to correct the p...

Is your website experiencing problems with Facebook's Like buttons? Don't worry, it's not just you and Facebook is working on a solution. The problem that seems to be impacting potentially thousands of sites is that clicking on a Like button results ...

Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr appeared on Al Jazeera English this weekend to address questions about the dangers posed by Facebook, including privacy concerns and the recent spat of out-of-control parties organized on the social network. Facebook's Ope...

Real-time comment and reaction platform Echo announced its next group of major partnerships today. These new clients -- which include The Washington Post, Time, Forbes, Sports Illustrated and Slate -- are part of the company's effort to reposition it...

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